The news from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and now Senegal is not good. The World Health Organization now believes the worst outbreak of Ebola ever, which has already killed more than 1500, could eventually infect as many as 20,000 people. The crisis has sent governments worldwide scrambling for potential treatments. Earlier this month, B.C.-based […]

The renewal and expansion of an existing contract with an an unnamed Asia-Pacific based carrier is a positive sign that Guestlogix (TSX:GXI) can reach other, similar deals, says Cantor Fitzgerald Canada analyst Justin Kew. Yesterday, Guestlogix announced that a deal had been reached with said carrier to continue the use of Guestlogix’s onboard retailing technology. […]

One of Canada’s biggest financial services firms, Manulife, has opened up a new space called RED Lab at Waterloo’s Communitech Hub, a tech-focused innovation centre that is home to the country’s most cutting-edge technology entrepreneurs. RED stands for “research, exploration and development”. Sitting on the opposite end of the colour wheel from the company’s traditional […]

Steep rents and the highest cost of living in the country don’t seem like much of an impediment to Vancouver’s Hootsuite attracting talent from its own back yard. The company’s semi-annual job fair, HootHire, took place yesterday at the company’s recently opened second location and attracted about 1000 people looking to snag an estimated 100 […]

Montreal virtual phone and text message app-maker PPLConnect has closed a round of seed funding from Sherbrooke Street Capital, for an undisclosed amount, and released several updates to its service, bringing it closer to their stated goal of providing “one inbox for all your messaging apps”. PPLConnect describes its app as “the world’s first virtual […]

The continued reaction to soft Q1 results is overshadowing a very sensible kickoff to Avante Logixx’s (TSX:XX) M&A efforts, says Paradigm Capital analyst Spencer Churchill. In late July, Avante Logixx reported its Q1, 2015 results. The company earned $208,055 on revenue of $2,026,260, down 12.8% from the Q1, 2014′s topline. More recently, it closed the […]

Vancouver ebook app developer BitLit has appointed Cameron Drew, former Director of Global Content Strategy for Kobo, as Head of Content. Previous to Kobo’s acquisition by Japan’s Rakuten Inc., Drew spent five years working to expand Kobo’s global footprint. BitLit was founded in 2013 to solve the problem confronting book owners not being able to […]

It must be frustrating days for BlackBerry’s marketing team. The company’s new phones get hammered for features they don’t have (thousands of mostly pointless apps) and overlooked for those they do (flash enabled browser). But yesterday, a new article from a leading tech site, Engadget, probably has a few people scratching their heads in Waterloo. […]

Ahead of its second quarter numbers, Cantor Fitzgerald Canada analyst Justin Kew says he remains enthusiastic about Versapay’s (TSXV:VPY) prospects. On Friday, Versapay will report its Q2, 2014 results. The company is following on a Q1 in which it lost $824,050 on revenue of $4.3-million, up 5% from the $4.1-million topline the company posted in […]